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In post-apocalyptic Oaxaca, survive a punishing first-person RPG of combat, scavenging, skill-building, and branching choices.
Released 11 Jul 2017
Craft Beer-Can Grenades
Recruit a Four-Person Team
Control the Weather
Brigand: Oaxaca is a highly difficult post-apocalyptic RPG/FPS set in Mexico. Emphasis is on challenge, a branching story with multiple endings, and total freedom of action (kill friendly characters, rob stores, jump across roofs, etc.).
Developed by Brian J. Lancaster, Laughing Coyote Software · Published by Brian J. Lancaster, Laughing Coyote Software
Brigand: Oaxaca is a first-person RPG set in post-apocalyptic Mexico. You travel through regions including a banana plantation, toxic caverns, the city of Pochutla, and a flooded coastline as a branching story unfolds around its characters and factions.
Explore hostile areas, fight rival groups and other dangers, and decide how to handle encounters: the game allows actions such as stealing, using rooftops to move around, and attacking friendly characters. Choices can affect the story and lead to different endings.
Develop your character across 14 skills and unlock special abilities, including options for firearms, hacking, crafting, and voodoo. You can make improvised weapons and grenades, recruit and command companions, and contend with hunger, disease, and other survival pressures. A world editor also lets you alter stories or create new ones.
Supplied reviews praise the depth of the RPG systems, the freedom to approach situations with different tactics, and the setting, atmosphere, and story. Some players enjoy the demanding combat and repeated attempts, while others find the difficulty frustrating. Rough controls, dated presentation, awkward menus, and technical or saving frustrations also appear in the reviews.
BRIGAND: OAXACA is a highly difficult RPG/FPS set in post-apocalyptic Mexico. The story will take you from a banana plantation to dark toxic caverns, to the sprawling city of Pochutla, to the flooded coastline, to deadly demon-infested jungles, and more.
There are 14 unique skills to upgrade with skill points, ranging from agility to firearms, hacking, hardware, voodoo. Unlock up to 80 special abilities that allow you to do things such as throw your weapon, upgrade your guns, and control the weather.
Dangers include rival tribes fighting for fertile land, mutated ghouls that emerge from their caverns at night, vicious demons that hunger for your flesh, a flooded and irradiated coastline that eats away at civilization, as well as disease, insanity, and hunger.
You will die often, and you will like it.
Key Features:
- Branching story with dynamic characters, dialogue trees, teammates, and multiple endings
- Total freedom of movement and action: jump from roof to roof, steal things, blow things up, or murder friendly characters (if that's your thing)
- Extensive character customization with 14 skills to upgrade and over 80 abilities to unlock, ranging from firearms to crafting, hacking, and voodoo
- Crafting system largely based on the Anarchist's Cookbook: make various grenades from empty beer cans and the proper chems, etc.
- Recruit a team of up to 4 characters that you can command or control directly as the player
- Explore a vast region of Oaxaca, taking you from a banana plantation, into toxic caverns, bustling cities, disease-ridden jungles, a flooded coastline, and more
- Completely versatile world editor, allowing you to edit the story for fun, or make a completely new story with new skills, scripts, and imported assets
Modding Permissions:
You can sell your own mods for Brigand on any site you want and keep all the profit, as long as you include a link to the Brigand store page and do not include the EXE files in your download. Itch.io is a good place to sell mods. Let me know if you make one (you don't have to).
Linux/Deck Compatibility:
To run on most Linux systems, enable the Steam Proton 8.0-5 in the "compatibility" tab.
Everything loads much faster on Steam Deck if you launch in "Desktop Mode".
| Platforms | Windows |
|---|---|
| Achievements | 77 |
| Age ratings |
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| Controller required | No |
| Demo | View demo on Steam |
| DLC / extras | 4 listed on Steam |
| Website | Official website |
